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Qualifications of the Aspirant and
the Teacher.
How are we to know a teacher then ? The sun requires no torch to make him visible--we need not light a candle in order to see him. When the sun rises, we instinctively become aware of the fact, so when a teacher of men comes to help us, the soul will instinctively find that truth has already begun to shine upon it. Truth stands on its own evidence-it does not require any other testimony to prove it to be true--it is selfeffulgent. It penetrates into the innermost corners of our nature, and in its presence the whole universe stands up and says, “This is truth.” The teachers whose wisdom and truth shine like the light of the sun, the very best that the world has known, are worshipped as gods by the major portion of man
